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We are beginning to be able to control very precisely how light interacts with matter, creating opportunities for invisibility, soundproofing and even earthquake damage prevention.
The 10th Republican debate offered a chance for establishment candidates to slow Donald Trump’s momentum just five days before Super Tuesday.
En Amérique on reparle de la fessée à l'occasion des élections présidentielles. Et le débat fait rage.
Senator Ted Cruz recently stated that he spanks his five-year-old daughter for lying. Spanking kids can cause tremendous damage to kids’ mental health – even if it is an occasional light rap.
Environmental sustainability will not figure into this year’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans, but the process helped build evidence – and consumer support – for inclusion in future DGAs.
Shouting past each other via different kinds of media isn’t going to help researchers – from éminences grises to new postdocs – effectively work together on issues in the field of science.
There’s a battle going on in your garden between invasive and valuable domestic pollinators. Here’s how to tilt the fight in favor of our humble bumble bee.
When you think about substance use and teens, drugs like marijuana or Ecstasy might come to mind. But recreational prescription drug use is a significant problem. Nationally, 17.8% of high school students…
It was 1930. Winston Churchill was a 55-year-old Conservative Party politician who had been a member of parliament for three decades. He had eventually risen to the position of chancellor of the exchequer…
Science isn’t important only to scientists or those who profess an interest in it. Whether you find fascinating every new discovery reported or you stopped taking science in school as soon as you could…
The US Senate has released the executive summary of a long-withheld report on harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA in the post-9/11 era. Previously undisclosed techniques have been revealed and…
The STEM fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics supposedly suffer from a shortage of graduates. Conventional wisdom says there’s no one for employers to hire for science and engineering…
Some experts worry that the Ebola crisis is diverting attention and resources away from neglected diseases with a substantially larger disease incidence.
Editor’s note: On November 20, President Obama announced a plan - through an executive order - to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation if they meet certain criteria. His move has…
The recent public exhibition of portraits painted by George W Bush, retired President of the United States, has managed to throw a lot of people into a tizzy. Critiques of his work ranged from relatively…
William, Duke of Cambridge, second in line to the British throne, likes to go deer stalking. It must be a class thing. Until the 19th century, deer stalking – what in the US is called “hunting” – was largely…
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released a report on the role of pizza in American diets. Researcher Donna Rhodes and colleagues in USDA’s agricultural research department found that an…
As humans, we experience an amazing world of colour, but what can other animals see? Some see much more than us, but how they use this vision is largely unknown. We see what we see because our eyes have…
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Assistant Professor of Community Health, Tufts University
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Professor of History, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Tufts University
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Associate Research Professor of International Relations, Tufts University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Tufts University
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Research Assistant Professor of Developmental, Molecular and Chemical Biology, Tufts University
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Henry J. Leir Chair in Global Migration, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University
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Professor of Political Economy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
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Research professor of geospatial technology, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Professor of the Practice, Tufts University
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Tisch College Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Lincoln Filene Professor, Tufts University
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Professor of Practice & Director, Fletcher Maritime Studies Program, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice in Public Diplomacy, Tufts University
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Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Biology, Tufts University
